Secrets of the Octopus takes us inside the world of these “aliens on Earth”


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Ars Technica— With Earth Day fast approaching once again, it's time for another new documentary from National Geographic and Disney+: Secrets of the...

PetaPixel—How 'Secrets of the Octopus' Shows the Beauty, Intelligence, and Alien Charm of Octopuses. Roughly 300 species of octopus live in the world's oceans. These creatures embody many traits that people consider particularly human, including remarkable intelligence and rich social lives, while occupying a physical form so different from us that they seem almost alien. [Read More]

Big Think—Alien Earths: How to find habitable worlds in our galaxy. This week, I have the pleasure of sharing with you my Q&A with Lisa Kaltenegger about her new book, Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos. Lisa is a world-renowned astrobiologist and the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University. Earlier this year, we published a joint paper with Sara Vannah proposing a new strategy for identifying planets that share similar characteristics with Earth at different times across its evolution. Life writes its presence on...

dailym.ai—The 'morbid' theory explaining why aliens have not contacted us on Earth. There have been various theories, including the lonely proposal that human-level intelligence is totally 'unique' in the universe, but one scientist has revealed a more likely scenario.